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discussed in biography

...in 1974 and lectured and taught widely throughout the world. A collection of his critical essays in English translation was published in 1978.
La guerra del fin del mundo (1981;
The War of the End of the World), an account of the 19th-century political conflicts in Brazil, became a best seller in Spanish-speaking countries. Three of his plays—...

Latin American literature

...
The Obscene Bird of Night) is more daring than his earlier or later fiction; and Vargas Llosa’s
La guerra del fin del mundo (1981;
The War of the End of the World) is of epic proportions and ambitions. In fact, Vargas Llosa’s and Fuentes’s production after the boom was on the whole considerably better than their earlier...